tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67710569433119859972024-03-13T20:44:13.112-07:00PoweromicsWelcome to the Poweromics blog - a new blog dedicated to exposing the use of 'Poweromics' within our communities today.
Poweromics = People using position and power for their own personal gain, based on poor moral values, self interest and greed.
This blog will regularly expose examples of such practice and link to other sites too.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771056943311985997.post-46921697038478239422012-12-12T15:37:00.002-08:002012-12-12T15:37:44.799-08:00Tax avoidance ... is morally corrupt ... capitalism ... and evil!<div class="firstPar" style="text-align: justify;">
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has insisted that he is "very proud" of
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multinationals pay, after it emerged that <strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/tax/9735448/Google-avoided-2bn-tax-by-funnelling-profits-through-Bermunda.html">Google
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However, Mr Schmidt defended the company's legitimate tax arrangements. “We
pay lots of taxes; we pay them in the legally prescribed ways,” he told <i>Bloomberg</i>.
“I am very proud of the structure that we set up. We did it based on the
incentives that the governments offered us to operate.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> “It’s called capitalism,” he said. “We are proudly capitalistic. I’m not
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Consumer Watchdog’s director John Simpson called for the Committee to schedule
a time for Mr Schmidt and Google’s chief executive could “testify under oath
and explain their company’s apparent abuse of the tax code to the detriment
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Mr Simpson urged the Senate to work with “other countries’ tax authorities” to
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“Governments in Europe, many of which have been targets of Google’s morally
bankrupt tax policies, are actively seeking redress,” he wrote. “But this is
not a problem that only impacts other countries’ revenues. Google’s tactics
strike at the US Treasury as well, forcing the rest of us to make up for the
Internet giant’s unwillingness to pay its fair share.” </span></div>
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He added: “What makes Google’s activities so reprehensible is its hypocritical
assertion of its corporate motto, 'Don’t Be Evil'.” </span></div>
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Documents filed last month in the Netherlands show that Britain is Google’s
second biggest market generating 11pc of its sales, or $4.1bn last year. </span></div>
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But the company paid just £6m in corporation tax. Overall, Google paid a rate
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The company reportedly uses complex tax schemes called the Double Irish and
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By channelling its revenues through Bermuda, Google avoided $2bn of global
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The tax arrangements add fuel to accusations made by British MPs that Google
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Ineptocracy - (</b><i>in-ep-toc'-ra-cy</i>) - <br />'A system of Government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods or services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers'.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The above definition of Ineptocacy could easily be read in two ways ... a dig at the poor and/or least able ... or a dig at the ultra-rich who misuse power and add no value, but gain wealth from ponzi ('money for nothing') schemes (eg counterfeiting money/gambling) and/or from the backs of hard working people who are actually adding all the value (but paying most of it back in tax - e.g. income tax, national insurance and 20% VAT) ... whilst the ultra-rich accumulate more wealth, more tax cuts and pay accountants to find any possible avoidance scheme so they can avoid paying any tax at all! **</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The biggest problem by far is in fact the latter ... tax needs to be applied to non-productive ways of generating wealth (gambling, land, housing) as a matter of urgency ... and income tax for those adding real value reduced ... these actions together would both remove the <a href="http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-2242414/George-Osborne-rocked-100bn-budget-black-hole.html" target="_blank">black hole</a> in the countries finances and reward producers who add real value!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Can this be done? ... of course e.g. by introducing a <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/land-of-free-but-whos-paying-for-it.html" target="_blank">land value tax</a>! ... However, those currently in power would never allow this to happen as it is not in their interests to do so ... as they want to be able to continue to make money from nothing ... and off of the backs of others ... and will fight tooth and nail to be able to continue to do so! </span></div>
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** W<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">e've started flushing out companies avoiding tax (e.g. <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/give-the-protest--and-starbucks--some-credit-this-20m-tax-donation-is-a-step-in-the-right-direction-8392972.html" target="_blank">Starbucks</a>), but we need to expose all the individuals involved in this practice too ... starting with those with their grip on Power!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Capitalism, which allows money to flow and be used without constraint, has led bankers to put money into where <u>they</u> get the 'greatest apparent return' ... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and unfortunately these places turn out to be ones where a community with any real moral code/values would not want it to go ... e.g. 'money for nothing' schemes/scams ... and places where people can be exploited the most.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">One might think in a capitalist system that any 'money for nothing' scam would quickly and naturally collapse, but this does not happen when the excessive profits generated are 're-invested' into lobbying Governments and policy makers to gain support/favour and put them into a position where their scam can continue to flourish and/or 'cannot' fail (e.g. as the Banksters did, and continue to do, hence the bailouts and continual pressure to water down any regulation).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The problem with capitalism is that money/wealth is naturally directed towards influencing those in power, to maintain/ further their position to exploit markets. For instance this occurred with banks persuading the Government to remove house prices from UK inflation figures, which created the house price boom (as interest rates would not longer have to increase due to a rise in inflation) and saw house prices triple in a decade. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Indeed before entering office David Cameron himself highlighted that Lobbying would be the next big scandal (post the scandal relating to politicians and the media), but on entering office he decided not just ignore it but to ensure that he benefited from it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lobbying is indeed a big scandal (e.g. banks 'invested' £100m into lobbying last year), but Capitalism creates an environment where a Corporatocracy can thrive, and creates many more problems besides (e.g. the movement of money to exploit people to the maximum, and the ability to move any wealth to tax havens in order to avoid paying any tax etc). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Held once every four years, thousands of athletes have prepared themselves for the biggest event of their lives! Putting their lives on hold, they have dedicated all their time and energy to the most ultimate of challenges - to see if they are the best in the world!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The building work started and the stage was set. Athletes from all around the world answered the call and descended in their thousands ... and made welcome by UK citizens! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Olympic flame traversed the country, from coast to coast and from mountain to river ... making it to the peak of Mount Snowdon (a peak my brother, niece and myself had climbed just a week earlier)! It travelled on boats, steam trains and horse back. In fact it travelled in virtually every way possible! It took time to met the Queen, and many celebrities too, until it finally arrived at the stadium!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Once Britain had brought to life a little of it's history (e.g. the industrial revolution centred on the Black Country to the creation of the internet by Sir Tim Berners-Lee) the torch entered the stadium with a bang and the stage was set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sports stars took up the challenge and they did not disappoint. Whilst the athletes continued to practice the cyclists and rowers stepped up to the stage. Fast and exciting the thrills came thick and fast! The crowds were immense and the drama intense. Sometimes the 'form book' proved right, sometimes news stars emerged. Sometimes equipment broke, sometimes records were smashed (again and again)!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With thrills right to the finish no-one wanted it to end ... but with all the gold medals handed out there were no more victors to ascend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So the closing ceremony arrived and a community tuned in ... to see the finale to the show, the glitz, glam and glee. The celebrities took over to put on a show, with their music, their glam and a massive fashion show!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And with the party over one finally reflects ... powering the industrial revolution Britain was indeed once great ... but due to the self-interest and greed of the few - e.g. in particular politicians, bankers, CEO's, celebrities, footballers, pop stars etc (e.g. Jimmy Carr and Gary Barlow recent tax scams) ... power and money has corrupted (take BSkyB and Football for instance) ... with glitz and glam now the order of the day ... firstly to hide the fact that Britain is now bankrupt and void of moral purpose ... and secondly to try to keep the majority of citizens in line ... by trying to say it could also be them (i.e. the next footballer, the next pop idol, or the next lottery ticket winner)! What a thin veneer (and scam)!</span><br />
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The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, today <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/jul/08/vince-cable-banks-throttling-recovery?newsfeed=true" target="_blank">accused</a> Britain's banks of "throttling" the economic recovery because
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However talk is cheap ... as he/his party voted <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/corrupt-capitalism-triumphs-over.html" target="_blank">against</a> a wide ranging <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/corrupt-capitalism-fraudulent-bankers.html" target="_blank">judicial inquiry</a> into the culture and practices of banks. His limited understanding of the level of corruption involved is also deeply worrying (n.b. the banks actually create/counterfeit over 90% of the money supply in the UK, not the Bank of England, and given this they are able to decide how <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/corrupt-economics-destroying-value-and.html" target="_blank">they</a> want to spend/gamble it).</div>
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Only by doing these things will real businesses start to thrive and the UK economy start to <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/corrupt-economics-destroying-value-and.html" target="_blank">flourish</a>. Unfortunately Cable doesn't understand this, and the Labour party doesn't either (given their parallel <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9384388/Ed-Miliband-wants-banks-to-sell-1000-branches-to-industry-newcomers.html" target="_blank">announcements</a> today)! </div>
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When potential collusion/corruption became apparent within the media, police and government ... MP's were quick (and right) to conclude that the only course of action possible was a public judicial inquiry (<a href="http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/" target="_blank">Leveson</a>) - with an independent judge able to go wherever the evidence takes them.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">However when it came to corruption/fraud within banks (and possible collusion with politicians/regulators), Cameron and Osborne fought tooth and nail to avoid an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/05/judge-led-inquiry-into-banks-rejected-by-mps_n_1651671.html" target="_blank">independent public judicial inquiry</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Osborne, like a typical '<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/arrogant-posh-boys-who-dont-care-but.html" target="_blank">out of touch</a>' <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/arrogant-posh-boys-who-dont-care-but.html" target="_blank">posh boy</a>, ignored any discussion/debate and chose to immediately go on the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2169642/Libor-scandal-Osborne-accused-cheap-point-scoring-blames-Ed-Balls-rate-fixing-crisis.html" target="_blank">offensive</a> ... with disgraceful and unprecedented <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/05/ed-balls-demands-george-osborne-withdraw-utterly-baseless-libor-accusation_n_1650924.html?utm_hp_ref=uk" target="_blank">personal attacks</a> (targeted at the shadow chancellor) ... and amazingly trying to claim that those demanding the forensic inquiry were the ones trying to cover things up! ... you couldn't make this stuff up (again)!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">... and why did Cameron and Osborne pull rank, and 'whip' their MP's to vote how THEY wanted ... because THEY wanted to cover things up!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If a full judicial inquiry had been instigated then they would have found it very difficult to control (in terms of its scope and level of scrutiny) ... and they would have quickly seen a full/frank exposure of how private banks control politicians - e.g. through vested interests, lobbying and party funding (i.e. Conservative party funding).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/corrupt-capitalism-fraudulent-bankers.html" target="_blank">judicial inquiry</a> would have also exposed/questioned the <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/corrupt-capitalism-fraudulent-bankers.html" target="_blank">mass counterfeiting</a> of money by private banks, which the Government still allows because of the 'illusion of growth' it creates (e.g. inflated asset prices, artificial 'house price booms' and money for speculation). </span></div>
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Politicians are currently <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/capitalism-flawed-and-corrupt-system.html" target="_blank">controlled by the banks</a> (e.g. lobbying, threats to growth and/or moving abroad) and/or in the pockets of banks (party funding, ex bankers, future bankers ... just look at Tony Blair who is now getting $2m+/year from J P Morgan) ... </div>
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People can clearly now see there are one set of rules for the rich/powerful (i.e. no real rules) ... e.g. the counterfeiting of money, widespread tax avoidance, no criminal prosecution of bankers/executives ... but there are an ever increasing set of rules policing everyone else (e.g. '<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124251/GCHQ-Big-Brother-plans-let-state-spy-websites-emails-texts-cost-YOU-2bn.html" target="_blank">big brother</a>', '<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/police-now-saying-we-need-to-prepare.html" target="_blank">police tasers</a>' ...)!</div>
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As far as the bankers are concerned we need to hit them hard immediately ... as a trivial fine (i.e. £60m from the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/27/barclays-other-banks-interest-rates-fsa?intcmp=239" target="_blank">FSA</a> ... nb the £290m includes US charges!) is not enough ... we should immediately take back control of money supply (i.e. 'electronic' money as well as 'paper' money - see the excellent <a href="http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/" target="_blank">Positive Money</a> reports below!) ... and make sure our money is only used <span style="font-size: small;">to provide carefully regulated loans directed to customers and business (i.e. not for themselves to gamble in pursuit of more profits/bonuses). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2166213/Bank-greed-real-scandal-times.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" target="_blank">forensic</a> legal inquiry should also be <a href="http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/35421" target="_blank">started</a> to uncover all corrupt practices and to jail the ring leaders (nb which will no doubt quickly spread to the regulators, politicians and Government officials manipulated/'run' by these people!) ... and a complete separation of retail/casino banking should also start immediately too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Whenever major decisions are taken about the future of the UK, news cameras will be aimed at reporters standing in front of Parliament. But is Parliament really where the key decisions are being made today, or has power shifted down the river to London’s financial sector, the City?<br /><br />This <i><b><a href="http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/2012/06/banking-vs-democracy-how-power-has-shifted-from-parliament-to-the-banking-sector/" target="_blank">news report</a> </b></i>from <a href="http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/" target="_blank"><i><b>Positive Money</b></i></a> finds a <i><b>banking system that has more ‘spending power’ than the democratically elected government, no accountability to the people, and a massive concentration of power in the hands of a few individuals</b></i>. <br /><br />However, the <i><b>greatest concern</b></i> is that <i><b>government has surrendered</b></i> one of its most important powers — <b><i>the power to create money and control the money supply</i></b> — to the private sector, which has exploited this power to blow up housing bubbles and indirectly transfer wealth upwards and inwards, with disastrous results. There has been no democratic debate about this transfer of power, and no law actively sanctions the current set-up.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />As the last few years have shown, the banking sector can have a serious negative impact on our lives. Leaving it with such a huge and unaccountable degree of power is no more likely to work in the best interests of society or democracy in the future than it has in the past. <br /><br /><b>An Overview:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><i><b>Ceding the Power to Create Money to the Banking Sector</b></i><br /><br />In the current system, <i><b>banks create the vast majority of money in the UK</b></i>, in the form of the electronic bank deposits that appear in your bank account. They create this money without regard to how much is needed for the economy and society as a whole to operate effectively, <i><b>and </b><b>they put over 90% of this money towards activities that do not contribute to the growth of the real economy</b></i>. <br /><br />This power to create money causes inflation that insidiously transfers wealth from savers and those who hold their wealth in cash (i.e. the poor and those on medium incomes) to those who are rich enough to hold their wealth in other assets (such as property). Giving private sector banks a monopoly on the creation of money also means that whenever additional money is needed in the economy, only private banks can provide it. In effect the entire money supply must be rented from the banking sector, at great cost to the economy. The creation of electronic money is a service that could be provided by the government at no cost to anyone. <br /><br />The business model that permits banks to create money—so far from the popular perception of banks as simple intermediaries between savers and borrowers—is inherently unstable and will systematically require periodic taxpayer-funded bailouts. The cost of these bailouts diverts revenue from the activities that the government was elected to do, compromising its ability to fulfil its democratically mandated objectives. <br /><br />Leaving this power to create money to the private sector creates a serious democratic deficit: a process that many would consider to be the sole prerogative of the state is in the hands of corporations who have no accountability to the wider public and whose interests are completely at odds with those of society as a whole. <br /><i><b><br />Overstating the True Contribution of the Banking Sector</b></i><br /><br />Politicians and policy makers are misinformed about the true contribution of the banking sector because they are only shown the positive side of the sector’s contribution to government finances, i.e. the taxes they pay. The overall contribution of the UK banking sector to the Exchequer is about 6% of overall tax revenues. In the year that the banking sector paid its highest ever tax, the manufacturing sector paid over three times more.<br /><br />Society is now acutely aware of the direct cost to the taxpayer of bailing out banks but less attention is directed to the hidden subsidies they benefit from, even in the good times. Firstly, because of both implicit and explicit government guarantees, when a bank borrows money it does so at an interest rate lower than it would be able to otherwise. Secondly, by giving up the power to create money the government forgoes an important source of revenue, which results in higher taxes, lower spending or a bigger national debt. Conversely, the banks benefit financially from the power to create money. These hidden subsidies more than outweigh any taxes paid by the banks. <br /><br /><i><b>No Accountability to Customers</b></i><br /><br />Unlike pension funds, banks are not required to disclose how they will use their customers’ money. As 97% of the UK’s money supply is effectively held with banks, this allows them to allocate a larger sum of money than either the entire pension fund industry or the elected government itself. Consequently the UK economy is shaped by the investment priorities of the banking sector, rather than the priorities of society. <br /><br />Just five banks hold 85% of the UK’s money, and these five banks are steered by just 78 board members whose decisions shape the UK economy. This is a huge amount of power concentrated in very few hands, with next to no transparency or accountability to wider society. <br /><i><b><br />The Close Relationship Between Banking and Government</b></i><br /><br />It is impossible to know how much influence the financial sector has over policy but they certainly devote substantial resources to getting it. The financial sector makes large donations to political parties: the Conservative Party is 50% financed by donors associated with the financial industry, and it offers a ‘backstage pass’ to meet the Prime Minister in exchange for a £50,000 annual donation, raising the question of whether ‘cash for access’ is subverting the political process. <br /><br />Lobbying is a fact of political life and only the most naïve politician would fail to take account of their naturally biased agenda. However, the resources of banking sector lobbyists far exceed those from other sectors and therefore the views of the banking industry may be drowning out those of civil society. <br /><br />The close relationship between the banking sector and its chief regulator, the FSA, should be worrying, especially given the record of the last few years. The revolving door between the banks and their regulators revolves faster in the UK than in any country other than Switzerland and a former Prime Minister now consults for one of the world’s largest investment banks, for a salary approximately 12 times more than he earned as Prime Minister. <br /><br /><i><b>Policy Implications</b></i><br /><br />A few economically simple changes to the banking system would return power back to the people and restore some level of democratic control over the economy. These changes are: <br /><br />1. Make banks ask for permission from their customers before they lend out their money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Recent posts have raised the issue of the <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/corrupt-economics-destroying-value-and.html" target="_blank">corrosive</a> and <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/capitalism-flawed-and-corrupt-system.html" target="_blank">corrupt</a> nature of capitalism (involving the control of money and power). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For decades food corporations have been heavily pressurizing and lobbying Governments ... to get their way, and to ensure they avoid any barriers (i.e. regulations) that would limit their ability to profit. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />Over the last two decades scientists were starting to raise concerns about obesity and looking at the reasons people become fat (e.g. fat intake, sugar intake, exercise), but under significant pressure/lobbying from food corporations the focus of attention was pushed away from sugar intake and onto to lack of exercise and the levels/types of fat in diets ... with any scientific funding investigating the impact of sugar on obesity increasingly switched off!<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/11/why-our-food-is-making-us-fat" target="_blank">food industry</a> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(particularly the sugar/corn companies)</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> did this as, following </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">their creation/manufacture of High Fructose Corn Syrup (nb basically a very cheap type of sugar, containing a glucose/fructose mix), they saw a great opportunity in the marketing of "low fat" products packed full of ultra cheap (and sweet) High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) ... and selling it for a premium! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Fructose started to enter the food chain in massive quantities for the first time ... and it is now in the vast majority of processed foods (as a sweetener, preservative and/or browning agent). In fact it's hard to find foods without large doses of it now (e.g. the vast majority of processed foods, breads, sauces, drinks etc etc)!<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">... and consuming large volumes of fructose turns out to be a huge problem ... for two fundamental reasons:<br /><br />1. Fructose is 'processed' by the body in a completely differently way to other carbohydrates ... unlike glucose, fructose cannot be metabolised directly by cells and it all has to be broken down by the liver (nb where poisons are processed). The process of transformation in the liver involves fructose being turned into uric acid, but also into dangerous fats which enter the bloodstream and get deposited around the body (nb additional chemicals created from breaking down fructose also enhance/accelerate this whole process further)! So 'low fat' (and highly processed) foods containing fructose are actually a way of pumping the body full of fat ... i.e. people are being duped into a terrible form of 'high fat' diet (i.e. that creates high levels of <u>body</u> fat) ... and are not on a 'low fat' diet at all ... and as all the advertising around it might suggest!</span></span><br />
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diabetes</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> ...) with all the consequences to public health and well-being. And the solution ... well most of the food industry are still arguing obesity is a result of lifestyle (e.g. the lack of exercise) ... and people's personal decisions (i.e. not a particular type of food) ... whilst others have made a fortune selling people 'slimming' products ... and by creating 'yo-yo' dieting!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sporting events, such as Euro 2012 and the London 2012 Olympics Games, are also currently swamped with advertising from companies like McDonald's, Mars and Coca-Cola ... as they try desperately to link themselves to healthy activities ... when they could not be further from the truth ... e.g. Coca-Cola also contains caffeine, an addictive drug and diuretic (makes you lose water) ... which makes you feel <u>more thirsty</u> ... and it's also packed full of fructose (just like McDonald's meals and Mars bars!), which fills you full of calories (and increases your body fat) ... and makes you feel <u>more hungry</u>!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The tobacco industry is heavily taxed, banned from mainstream advertising, and surrounded by numerous health warnings ... and fructose will eventually have the same! But just like the tobacco industry ... the food industry is using all its <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-13/anti-obesity-soda-tax-fails-as-lobbyists-spend-millions-retail" target="_blank">power</a> to stop this from happening ... and is currently succeeding!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Capitalism - where money is allowed in 'free markets' to flow in an unrestricted way ... and without any social/moral compass ... is flawed. In the hands of the greedy, corrupt and power-hungry, money is not used to help people, but to exploit them ... in pursuit of yet more money and power ... and over the last few decades these people have proved themselves to have no conscience or morals whatsoever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Let's start with those who argue for 'free markets' all around the world. By arguing for this what they really mean is that they should be allowed to invest in whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want, and where they are most able to exploit the workforce/natural resources. If a country tries to defy them, and not allow their people to be exploited, then they will threaten them ... move their money elsewhere ... and force their communities/countries into ruin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Does this really happen? ... of course it does! And we see the consequences of this every day! It's why manufacturing moved to China, moving on to Vietnam ... and will eventually move to Africa (which is what China themselves are also starting to do). It's how corporations regularly threaten governments with moving their operations/jobs overseas, unless governments slash their tax bills and give them exactly what they want (e.g. Banks regularly <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/20/hsbc-wins-concessions-after-relocation-warning" target="_blank">threaten to move their centres of operation</a> overseas to avoid taxes and any regulation restricting their immoral activities, and Vodafone were also recently <a href="http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-1704527/Taxman-let-Vodafone-off-6bn-bill.html" target="_blank">let off £6bn in tax</a>)!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">These are not 'free-markets', but 'corrupt markets', where the ultra-rich can openly exploit and devour the poor/hard-working. 'Free markets' would have allowed corrupt banks to fail ... they would not have handed them taxpayers money! The banks should pay the cost of 'insuring' themselves against failure, and be taxed accordingly (nb which would naturally be far greater than any traditional gambling tax)! However the Government are not doing this</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (nb a financial transaction tax is being vehemently <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9286541/David-Cameron-promises-to-fight-financial-transactions-tax-all-the-way.html" target="_blank">opposed</a> in the UK)</span><span style="font-size: small;">, as they are 'in the pockets' of the bankers and the ultra-rich ... and even if they weren't ... they would be continually threatened by them (e.g. with moving their operations overseas, moving their money, and/or forcing 'a run' on their currency/country).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If anyone has any doubt about the corrupt way in which capitalism is working ... one only needs to look at recent actions of the Bank of England and George Osborne. In the past they pumped an additional $325bn into the banks, via their so called '<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/printing-money-inflation-and-spin.html" target="_blank">Quantatitive Easing</a>' programme, in the hope it would feed through to businesses and the wider economy ... but the banks lent very little of this out to actual businesses ... preferring to gamble with it and increase their bonuses again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Because of this Osborne and King have just recently announced a scheme to give them more money ... but this time they are trying to position it as money they can only use to lend to real businesses! Says it all really! One Government minister also admitted this was needed because bankers were 'investing' elsewhere to get better 'returns' (i.e. in <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/locusts-leeches-and-vultures.html" target="_blank">'money for nothing' scams</a> ... e.g. insurance, counterfeiting, gambling with other people's money)! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Moral businesses desperately trying to add value, help others and create jobs have been (and are still being) deliberately starved of money/resources ... by <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/removing-corrupt-monetary-and-economic.html" target="_blank">corrupt bankers</a> who couldn't care a jot and are only interested in swelling their own immoral/grotesque fortunes. A</span><span style="font-size: small;">dding real value to people's
lives takes time, effort and resources/people, all an <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/city-socially-useless-and-needs-be.html" target="_blank">anathema to bankers</a> ... as they cannot compete with legalized 'money for nothing' schemes ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">'Free-market capitalism' effectively <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/locusts-leeches-and-vultures.html" target="_blank">promotes 'money for nothing' schemes</a> (e.g. 'financial engineering') and results in the systematic destruction of real economies/communities ... it blights communities ... and survives only because of ignorance, apathy and the <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/removing-corrupt-monetary-and-economic.html" target="_blank">centralization/control of power and capital</a> (the 'means of production').</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Moral businesses create value, <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/corrupt-economics-destroying-value-and.html" target="_blank">corrupt bankers/financiers</a> systematically <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/locusts-leeches-and-vultures.html" target="_blank">leech</a> from this and <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/adding-value-or-destroying-value.html" target="_blank">destroy value</a>, and should be stopped from doing so ... We need state run community banking, investing in real business, and out of the hands of immoral bankers (gamblers), where money is invested by the people for the people ... and guess what ... we actually already effectively 'own' two banks as a result of recent bailouts ... so why don't we get on with it and put these to good use ... by putting capable, honorable and trustworthy community stakeholders on boards ... n.b. and we do not want Richard Branson or Philip Green types ... who preach to everyone, but pay no tax themselves)!</span><br />
<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771056943311985997.post-51129402557040003922012-06-22T11:35:00.000-07:002012-06-22T11:36:39.664-07:00Corrupt economics: Destroying Value ... and Communities<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
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Government is currently promoting the fact that they are shifting
their focus onto exports, manufacturing (cf finance) and growth (i.e. job
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<span style="font-size: small;">However this once again appears to be all spin and no substance! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Our
current trade deficit is at its <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18456161" target="_blank">worst</a> level for seven years,
manufacturing is <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18293411" target="_blank">shrinking</a> (not increasing), and recent figures show that the
vast majority of jobs currently being created are in finance (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/9343229/Where-are-all-the-jobs-in-Britain.html?frame=2253484" target="_blank">over 60%</a>)
- not manufacturing (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/9343229/Where-are-all-the-jobs-in-Britain.html?frame=2229075" target="_blank">less than 3%</a>)! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This
Government tries to tell us the financial sector makes up a small part
(less than 10%) of the total economy, which is a complete distortion ...
this small figure does relate to the manufacturing sector, but not the
financial sector ... and the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/9343229/Where-are-all-the-jobs-in-Britain.html?frame=2253484" target="_blank">job creation figures</a> provide a truer
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<span style="font-size: small;">Corrupt
'free market capitalism', is systematically backing/ promoting '<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/locusts-leeches-and-vultures.html" target="_blank">money for nothing</a>' scams ... <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/removing-corrupt-monetary-and-economic.html" target="_blank">over 'real' hard-working businesses</a> desperately trying to positively
contribute to society and add real value to people's lives .. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It
is well known and well documented (e.g. on this blog) that bankers (and
<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/locusts-leeches-and-vultures.html" target="_blank">finance companies</a> in general) do not add any real value to society ...
in fact they're actually systematically <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/adding-value-or-destroying-value.html" target="_blank">destroying value</a> ... hence they
need to be reigned in. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In
the future 'adding real value' needs to be positively <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/moral-capitalism-where-purpose-of-banks.html" target="_blank">backed/promoted</a>
... and <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/adding-value-or-destroying-value.html" target="_blank">destroying value</a> needs to be made illegal or, as a minimum,
taxed very heavily to replace/cover any value it may destroy (i.e. just
like other forms of gambling, tobacco, alcohol etc currently are). This Government
is <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9286541/David-Cameron-promises-to-fight-financial-transactions-tax-all-the-way.html" target="_blank">vehemently resisting</a> any financial transaction tax ... which would
be a good start to achieving this goal ... and why? ... well, they are
'in the pockets of the bankers', are also threatened by them (e.g.
threats to move their centres overseas if they don't like what the Government is doing)
... and they allow this corrupt <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/why-bankers-arent-worth-it-and.html" target="_blank">banking system</a> to <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/money-banking-root-cause-of-debt-crisis.html" target="_blank">counterfeit money</a> and to keep the 'means of production' (i.e. money/capital) mostly
in the hands of themselves (over 60% of all new jobs/investment) ... so they can
create and exploit yet more 'money for nothing' scams (i.e. 'financial
engineering')!</span></div>
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are systematically stealing taxpayers money, plundering and destroying
communities, and stealing people's future ... by burdening communities
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<span style="font-size: small;">Capitalism
is better described as the '<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/irradicating-economics-of-exploitation.html" target="_blank">economics of exploitation</a>' ... and this is
not being tackled because we also have a <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/ignorance-is-not-bliss-and-democracy-is.html" target="_blank">mockery of a democracy</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">As <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/aristotle-evil-of-ignorance.html" target="_blank">Aristotle</a> once said ...</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> <br /><br />"<i>Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers"</i> <br /><br />... and ... </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></i></span><br />
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a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there
are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme" ... </span></i></span><br />
<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771056943311985997.post-66404916580844944482012-05-30T06:58:00.000-07:002012-05-30T06:59:40.921-07:00Doctors show what they really care about ... and it's not their patients!<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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Doctors, just like all other professions, previously <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/bma-rejects-health-reforms-for-second.html" target="_blank">opposed</a> the Government's proposed NHS reforms outright ... but when the Government <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/destruction-of-nhs-and-mockery-of.html" target="_blank">ignored them</a>, they were quick to 'give up' and 'get on' with it.</div>
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However Doctors have <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9299575/Doctors-vote-to-take-industrial-action-British-Medical-Association.html" target="_blank">voted to strike</a> today ... about one particular aspect of the NHS reforms ... but not those parts set to decimate the NHS ... </div>
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Doctors have instead decided to strike over proposed changes to their pensions! (which, even after the change, will see them receiving 250% more money than an average person receives when they are still working, and before any Tax/NI is taken off!)</div>
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This just goes to show how these people, who take the hippocratic oath (and who we are supposed to trust) have, for some time, not become medical doctors due any 'calling'/desire to care for people (i.e. a vocation, as it once was), but to get on a highly lucrative 'gravy train' consisting of money (NHS, private, shares/bonuses from <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/gps-rationing-healthcare-already-and.html" target="_blank">rationing your care</a>), self-interest and greed. </div>
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If this were not true then they would be striking over those parts of the bill that will decimate the NHS, ration/privatize healthcare and, to put it bluntly ... 'kill people' ... shame on them ... people will soon trust them as much/little as the <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/morals-vs-money-battle-has-begun.html" target="_blank">politicians</a> and the <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/moral-capitalism-where-purpose-of-banks.html" target="_blank">banksters</a>!</div>
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771056943311985997.post-62375709547493999062012-05-24T12:31:00.001-07:002012-05-30T12:31:22.338-07:00"Posh Boys" Determined to "Line the Pockets" of the Ultra-Rich<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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Believe it or not the "<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/arrogant-posh-boys-who-dont-care-but.html" target="_blank">posh boys</a>" are now trying to push the idea of giving businesses the ability to be '<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18142544" target="_blank">sack people at will</a>' ... and getting their 'spin machines' (e.g. The Taxpayers Alliance) to push the argument for a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18137548" target="_blank">single rate of tax</a> at the same time too (i.e. spin for getting rid of the <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/tax-cuts-for-rich-and-double-dip.html" target="_blank">top rate of tax</a> altogether)! </div>
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Both ideas are being 'spun' as 'solutions for growth' ... yet you really couldn't make this stuff up!</div>
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1. They have no idea at all about how to create growth ... as their proposals would actually reduce growth, not boost growth!</div>
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<i>... Slashing services, cutting jobs and increasing taxes for the least well off in society (e.g. increasing VAT and National Insurance) reduces the spending power of the vast majority and reduces growth. It is well known that people with the least (and with little/no savings too) tend to spend any money they have on additional goods and services (i.e. which makes the wheels of the economy go round), whereas giving yet more money to the rich (via further tax cuts) does not boost growth at all (i.e. 'trickle down economics' is a <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/tax-rich-more-and-poor-less-say-rich-in.html" target="_blank">complete scam</a>), it just allows them to hoard even more (as recently demonstrated by the massive increase in the wealth of those in the latest <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17885570" target="_blank">UK's rich list</a> - despite a supposed recession)! The publication of this list, alongside the recent <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/business-as-usual-top-directors-get-49-per-cent-pay-rise-2376929.html" target="_blank">50% increases</a> in top executive pay, prove this once and for all, and now only a brain-washed/brain-dead person would fail to see this now.</i></div>
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2. They do know what they are doing (and how to really boost growth), but it serves their interest to keep things very difficult, so they can use this to justify slashing public services still further!<br />
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<i>... In reality the "<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/arrogant-posh-boys-who-dont-care-but.html" target="_blank">posh boys</a>" actions' have been designed to slash any service provided to 'ordinary people' and put fear amongst 'the peasants' (e.g. a 'sack at will' strategy) to maximise the ability of the ultra-rich to exploit them. According to recent reports these people have not seen a recession at all, with their wealth continuing to rise. These immoral spin doctors previously 'spun' the idea that the introduction of the 50% top rate of tax resulted in massive tax avoidance by the ultra-rich (by them pulling any pay forward - a known, but one-off, opportunity), and <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/tax-cuts-for-rich-debt-slavery-for.html" target="_blank">used this argument to remove it altogether</a>, yet this action perversely allowed them to do the same sort of thing again (by putting pay back a year this time)! Again you couldn't make this stuff up ... yet the gullible British public accept it, and the culpable/incompetent British press/journalists (e.g. BBC) do not bring them to account either!</i><br />
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These PR merchants, rather than truly trying to stimulate growth, actively try to blame everyone else for the lack of growth, so they can continue their immoral plan ... and from this point of view Europe's current woes create 'the perfect platform' for the Government - occurring at just the right time for them (nb exports to Europe have been going up, not down, so their arguments that Europe is causing the problem are again mostly spin)!<br />
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These PR merchants also tried to put fear into everyone (over petrol) to get everyone to rush to the pumps in the final days of the last quarter (causing a self-generated petrol crisis), to try to avoid the UK being formally classified as entering a double dip recession ... but this did not work. Indeed the revised GDP figures released today suggest that the economic contraction was even worse than initially reported, and pointing to fact that the initial recovery was all but stamped out as soon as the "<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/arrogant-posh-boys-who-dont-care-but.html" target="_blank">posh boys</a>" took over! In reality, we are now not only in a double-dip recession, but in a depression much worse than the 30's (the "great depression'), as when you look at the initial contraction, and the subsequent recovery (see diagram below), the recovery in levels of GDP is much worse now ...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now we see the true outcome from these immoral charlatans ... a double-dip recession, with no prospect for a prosperous <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/tax-cuts-for-rich-debt-slavery-for.html" target="_blank">future</a> in sight (except for the ultra-rich - according to recent surveys).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simple estimates (see below) suggest that the increase in petrol sales would have boosted GDP by around 0.1% ... enough of an amount, the Government had hoped, would have just have prevented double-dip recession headlines being reported.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the real concern for these people now is that their estimates proved to be nowhere near either ... despite the temporary 2% boost in retail sales in March!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And will the Government reverse their strategy, e.g. give back the money to the pensioners and put taxes back to where they were for the rich, or will these '<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/arrogant-posh-boys-who-dont-care-but.html" target="_blank">arrogant posh boys</a>', who 'show no remorse, no contrition, and no passion to want to understand the lives of others', plough on regardless ... </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well said ... and how true ... and Cameron had no real answer to this (except trying to guess at the price of milk)!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cameron has overseen Osborne's mugging of pensioners (the 'Granny Tax') and tax cuts for millionaires (the slashing of the top rate of tax) ... and forced through the <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/destruction-of-nhs-and-mockery-of.html" target="_blank">disasterous NHS reforms</a> himself, against the advice given by every independent professional body (nb people will not forget this ... or forgive him for this).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Destroying a country to satisfy your own self-interest/greed should be classified as an act of treason ... punishable by death - the Chinese have this ... so why don't we? </span></div>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17503116" target="_blank">footage</a>, he is heard to say: "£200-250k is premier league … what you would get is, when we talk about your donations the first thing we want to do is get you at the Cameron/Osborne dinners" ...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"You do really pick up a lot of information and when you see the prime minister, you're seeing David Cameron, not the prime minister. But within that room everything is confidential – you can ask him practically any question you want" ...<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The newspaper claims the offer was made even though Cruddas knew the money would come from a fund in Liechtenstein that was not eligible to make donations under electoral law. Options said to have been discussed included creating a British subsidiary or using UK employees as conduits. The overseas clients were, in fact, reporters posing as wealth fund executives who had made clear they wished to develop contacts with the prime minister and other senior ministers to further their business.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The revelations will be a considerable embarrassment for the government, especially in the wake of claims in the budget of a supposed crackdown on wealth in offshore havens. Cameron has also made political mileage out of his intention to run a sleaze-free government.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The disclosures appear to contradict previous claims by the Conservatives that their high-value donor groups, such as the "leader's group", are for genuine supporters who do not seek to influence policy in return for their cash.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They also raise questions about the role of the prime minister. Months before taking office, Cameron warned that this type of "secret corporate lobbying" was the "next big scandal waiting to happen". Yet the <i>Sunday Times</i> claims the meetings, at which Cruddas claimed "premier league" donors could lobby the prime minister directly, have not been declared to the public. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cameron clearly knew about such problems, as his own warnings prior to entering office suggest ... however on entering office he chose to ignore his own warnings and carried on regardless ... yet another mistake from an increasingly arrogant and out of touch 'leader' ...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Given this type of behaviour it's no surprise that the damaging NHS reforms were forced through regardless (with Lansley and the Conservative party also heavily backed by Private Healthcare providers) ... </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">No wonder the Conversatives are also not keen on the electoral commissions recommendations to limit any donations to £10,000 ...<br />
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What immoral and corrupt people these people really are ...<br />
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771056943311985997.post-64691979893745598172012-03-24T14:31:00.000-07:002012-03-24T14:31:27.774-07:00The 'Granny Tax' and the death of the 'Big Society'<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Following on from Osborne's budget, we are now starting to see who he has actually taken most of the money off (and handed it to the rich) ... and it turns out to be the elderly!!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">He has subtly introduced a "<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118993/Granny-tax-backlash-Fury-scale-Chancellors-raid-pensioners-emerges.html" target="_blank">Granny Tax</a>", by freezing personal allowances for the elderly ... as their personal allowance will no longer increase in line with inflation, which means more of their already meagre pensions will be subjected to tax. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
If you steal £100 from a lone pensioner then you are called an immoral, cowardly criminal ... but if you take £100's from millions of pensioners it's called Government policy! <br />
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This Government, along with their 'friends' in the City, have already been fleecing the elderly every year, through £10bn's in lost interest that they would have otherwise received from their savings. <br />
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Osborne clearly thought this could be sneaked through without anyone noticing ... but by leaking everything before the budget, attention has naturally focused on those areas he didn't (e.g. this)!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And the consequences could be huge ... previous Government's have always been particularly careful not to upset the elderly, as they are one of the few groups of people who like to exercise their right to vote! Cameron is clearly reeling, and has tried desperately to deflect attention away from this (e.g. by saying he wants to bring in a minimum pricing for alcohol - which looks like he <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119546/Prime-Ministers-ban-cheap-drinks-breaks-EU-law-claim-alcohol-companies.html" target="_blank">cannot legally do</a>)!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Watch out for announcements on how they will try to limit the damage of Osborne's actions in the future ... as being seen as a party who 'robs a granny' to 'reward the rich' will come to haunt them (just like the NHS reforms will) ... </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">On a separate level, David Cameron and the Conservatives have been repeatedly 'spinning' the idea of the 'Big Society' (building upon charities and more people volunteering), to fill all the gaps created by their 'slash and burn' policy for public services. <br />
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The flaws in this idea are both numerous and <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/democracy-what-democracy-government-is.html" target="_blank">clear</a> (e.g. massive cutbacks to the budgets given to local councils mean they can no longer support local charities in the ways that they have in the past), and many of its initial high-profile backers have resigned because of the hypocrisy.<br />
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And in the budget the Government hammered yet another nail into their 'Big Society' coffin. The Government have now slashed tax relief on charitable giving, restricting it to £50,000. This will dramatically reduce charitable giving; cutting off yet another vital source of income for charities. Charities are not surprisingly up in arms about this ... but will their <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/21/budget-2012-charities-tax-cap" target="_blank">voices</a> be heard? This Government hasn't listened to anyone to date (e.g. the ignored all the healthcare professionals about their NHS reforms) ... so why do charities think they will listen to them?!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771056943311985997.post-51955948082797132742012-03-21T12:05:00.008-07:002012-03-21T15:21:16.674-07:00Tax Cuts for the 'Rich', Debt Slavery for the 'Majority' and Wage Slavery for the 'Poor'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Government has openly demonstrated that we are definitely "<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/increasingly-unequal-country-where.html" target="_blank">not all in this together</a>" again today, as it </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">delivered a "budget for multi-millionaires"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> ... 'cloaked' with a great deal of spin.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">First of all the Government coalition, mostly made up of multi-millionaires (e.g. Osborne, Cameron and Clegg), are taking more money away from the elderly, hard-working and poor (by removing more of their tax related benefits/allowances) ... and giving it to the rich (i.e. by cutting the 50% top rate of tax for incomes over £150,000).</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In trying to justify removing the 50% rate, the Government used the argument that rich people, prior to its initial introduction (2009-10), had 'moved' a total of £16-18bn of their income into a previous tax year to avoid paying the increased rate. However this is effectively little more than spin, as this was a <b>one-off</b> opportunity for them to be able to avoid the tax increase (and one they couldn't use again). Worse still, the rich will be able to effectively defer pay into the future in order to avoid the 50% tax rate again now too ... what spin and hypocrisy, and what a failure of opposition/media if they fail to properly point this out (nb Ed Balls has attempted to do this today, but he's unfortunately 'damaged goods' and his attempt was also poor)!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The second argument the Government used was they that are balancing this tax cut by imposing increased stamp duty on the purchase of expensive properties ... but for <span style="font-size: small;">rich people not looking to buy lots of expensive properties (e.g. Osborne, Cameron and Clegg!) this is great ... as they will not be subjected to this tax at all and will therefore be the big winners - receiving a massive windfall/tax cut </span><span style="font-size: small;">(worth £3bn annually)</span><span style="font-size: small;">. <br />
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Not surprisingly absolutely nothing is being done to introduce a tax on land (i.e. a <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/land-of-free-but-whos-paying-for-it.html" target="_blank">Land Value Tax</a> - a yearly rent on land - not a one off sale tax on property), which is by far the best way of taxing wealth/ unearned income (as by design the ultra-rich cannot avoid it) and a way of progressively moving away from taxing work/jobs. Failure to do this will mean people continue to see effective cuts to pay/allowances, the slashing of public services, and <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/partners-in-crime-debt-slavery-and-wage.html" target="_blank">debt slavery</a> for the vast majority (e.g. due to the high costs of housing and the introduction of tuition fees).</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">And what about the poor? ... well any benefits/support are being slashed ... and people are being driven to work for large private corporations for no extra pay (or lose their benefits) ... which effectively means they are being made to work for £1.50/hour - a small <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/partners-in-crime-debt-slavery-and-wage.html" target="_blank">fraction</a> (less than a quarter) of the national minimum wage (which should effectively be illegal)! </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">And for the poor it's <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/partners-in-crime-debt-slavery-and-wage.html" target="_blank">wage slavery</a>, and if they (and/or indeed the 'middle-class') choose to protest ... well, as raised in previous <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/police-now-saying-we-need-to-prepare.html" target="_blank">posts</a>, this Government is looking to arm the police with tear gas, water cannons and tasers, in readiness for potential riots (i.e. turning the police into a para-military force in order to protect themselves, and their rich friends)!</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">NB Given the <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/destruction-of-nhs-and-mockery-of.html" target="_blank">lack of democracy</a>, and the level of dictatorship, shown by the Government ... with their pushing through of damaging NHS reforms, with no electoral mandate and despite outright opposition from every professional group, ... doctors are now saying that they are going to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/18/doctors-nhs-reforms-coalition-election" target="_blank">stand</a> for election against these immoral hypocritical politicians, due to an absence of any real alternative for people to vote for ...</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771056943311985997.post-78176619842537335582012-03-16T04:59:00.000-07:002012-03-16T04:59:47.739-07:00Destruction of the NHS ... and 'a mockery of democracy'<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The current Government are hell-bent on destroying the NHS ... a NATIONAL health service set up in 1948 by Aneurin Bevan and <a href="http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/about/Pages/nhscoreprinciples.aspx" target="_blank">created</a> out of the ideal that good healthcare should be available to all, regardless of any wealth, and based upon three core principles:<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">* that it meet the needs of everyone <br />
* that it be free at the point of delivery <br />
* that it be based on clinical need, not ability to pay.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Prior to gaining office the Conservative party deliberately kept secret their radical plans for the NHS from the people of this country. Their plans for the NHS were cooked up by Lansley over many years in opposition, and yet they failed to tell the people anything about their plans prior to the election (as no-one would have trusted them, and no-one would have voted for them)! </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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Worse still, the Conservatives continually lied and made use of copious amounts of spin (nb David Cameron is only trained in PR) to persuade the country that they could be trusted with the NHS and that the "NHS would be safe in their hands". What irony and hypocrisy. The NHS reforms introduced by this manipulative Government therefore had no mandate from the electorate, and on entering Government they have consistently (and deliberately) circumvented any democratic right/process. In summary, they have made a '<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2012/03/ignorance-is-not-bliss-and-democracy-is.html" target="_blank">mockery of democracy</a>'.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F-V8VAGYixE/T2MgpImPAnI/AAAAAAAAA7w/y5wFic8gtvI/s1600/democracy.gif" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="215" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F-V8VAGYixE/T2MgpImPAnI/AAAAAAAAA7w/y5wFic8gtvI/s1600/democracy.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And what about their continual spin ... that the NHS is 'Safe in their Hands?' What a joke! On being told by the Information Commissioner (and the High Court) to publish the risk register associated with these reforms, the Government have steadfastly <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/09/nhs-reforms-appeal-risk-register?newsfeed=true" target="_blank">refused</a> to do so, whilst continuing to rail-road the reforms through.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The reforms are highly toxic and designed to deliberately <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2012/02/dictat-vs-democracy-cameron-and-lansley.html" target="_blank">destroy</a> the very foundations/principles of the NHS. They open the doors to mass profiteering, by commissioning groups as well as private providers, which will taking money out of the system that would have otherwise been spent on healthcare. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">They will also destroy the 'doctor-patient' relationship and any trust patients have in their doctors, due to clear conflicts of interest (made clear by the Royal College of GP's) that have not been addressed! Doctors will now have to balance any diagnostic decision (and any decisions about subsequent treatment) with reduced budgets and a new found ability to profiteer (e.g. from withholding/limiting any diagnoses/care provided). The reforms deliberately try to bribe GP's to ration healthcare (e.g. by offering them bonuses for doing so). Yet despite this, the vast majority of GP's directly oppose the bill and want to see it dropped, some out of 'principle', and some from the fact that they know they are going to effectively become a scapegoat and the focus of people's anger (as people realise that care is effectively being withheld by them, unless they can afford to pay). </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Indeed, this Government has been careful to deflect any blame on the future lack of healthcare provision away from themselves and onto local groups (a divide and rule strategy). GP's are clearly the main target but the Government have also effectively removed the world NATIONAL from the term 'National Health Service', as there will no longer be a national standard for the type, or level, of care offered across the country (with no-one taking overall responsibility for this). This will result in a "post code lottery" health service; destroying the concept/principles of a NATIONAL health service ... And if anyone thinks they'll be able to simply move doctors if they're not happy, think again, as the Government have not allowed this (you will effectively have to move house to change your GP surgery - and even then, it will still depend on you being able to find a different, and more caring, commissioning group)!<br />
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If offered treatment, patients are also seeing waiting times dramatically increase, with Government officials desperately trying to remove any remaining waiting time measures/targets (n.b. people are also seeing appointments offered, but repeatedly cancelled too). Increasing waiting times are also a crucial (but toxic and hidden) ingredient of these reforms, as they are needed to pressurize people into paying for health insurance and/or paying to queue jump (NB they will now be able to jump the queue, as NHS hospitals will be able to allocate up to 49% of their time/resources to those who pay, and those willing/able to pay will be treated first, by exactly the same NHS doctors and nurses ... which in turn will make waiting lists/times even longer).<br />
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This destroys the very foundations of the NHS, in that healthcare should be "based on clinical need and not the ability to pay". With these reforms this will clearly not be the case in the future. Indeed, it is noticeable that Government ministers are always careful not to use this particular phrase when defending their reforms, and only say the NHS is about care still being 'free at the point of delivery'.<br />
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With the destruction of the core principles of the NHS, what we are seeing is the dismantling of the NHS ... and a list of 'the guilty', who should be charged with 'crimes against humanity', can be found below, along with their respective roles:<br />
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David Cameron, for his lies, deceit and hypocrisy. Andrew Lansley, for cooking up this immoral plan to destroy the NHS. Both parties are guilty of pressing on regardless, ignoring fundamental issues/concerns raised by every healthcare professional group, and systematically manipulating/ circumventing democratic processes (e.g. publication of the risk register).<br />
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<blockquote>Ed Miliband for 'throwing a sickie' and not attending a rally against NHS reforms, so he could accept a VIP invitation to watch Hull City play football instead. </blockquote><br />
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Andy Burnham (and John Healey), for failing to articulate a clear (and proven) alternative to these reforms ... based on engaging and empowering the workforce to radically improve the service ... and in the process making the NHS more seamless and efficient (i.e. '<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-8xAIgkewOUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">lean</a>') ... n.b. the complete opposite of this Government's approach, which focuses on fragmenting (and destroying) the service, ignoring any advice and/ or concerns of healthcare professionals, and handing over the money to those seeking pure profit (e.g. McKinsey's, commissioning groups, insurance companies and private providers), and not those on the front-line who are passionate about the NHS and want to create better healthcare for all (i.e. the healthcare professionals).</blockquote><br />
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</div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">and finally, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, for ditching socialism (in favour of crony capitalism, self-interest and 'spin') and for abandoning all the 'ordinary', hard working, people they were supposed to represent. Their failures (e.g. bank deregulation, bank bailouts and the subsequent pressure to slash public services to pay back all the resulting debt) in effect created an 'open door' for the Conservatives to step into, impose a slash and burn strategy, and blame the Labour party for having to do it! </blockquote><br />
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<b>RIP NHS</b> ... a casualty of self-interest and greed, and a <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2012/03/ignorance-is-not-bliss-and-democracy-is.html" target="_blank">lack of real democracy</a></span> ...<br />
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and why ... well this is down to a combination of ignorance and apathy. <br />
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<b>RIP Britain</b> ... and watch out for impending <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2012/03/police-now-saying-we-need-to-prepare.html" target="_blank">riots</a>.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Aristotle once <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2010/08/aristotle-evil-of-ignorance.html" target="_blank">said</a> ...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers"</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme"</span></blockquote><br />
Those currently in power are desperately trying to ensure that this will never happen ... and indeed the opposite remains true ... by wielding all the power at their disposal (including the deployment of paramilitary forces armed with water cannons, tear gas, tasers and plastic bullets) ... and the answer to this ... mass protest ... withdrawal of labour ... and the use of 21st century technology.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771056943311985997.post-24619459065656851592012-03-15T01:13:00.000-07:002012-03-15T01:13:44.309-07:00Police now saying ... 'We need to prepare for Riots'<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Every police force could have access to a water cannon within months as police chiefs vow to prevent a repeat of last summer's riots.<br />
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Following on from Lord Stevens <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-predict-riot-or-public-disorder-says.html" target="_blank">comments</a>, Senior officers are <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114601/Water-cannons-streets-months-Tear-gas-Tasers-police-wish-list-combat-riots.html" target="_blank">demanding</a> the 'valuable' crowd control weapons, previously deployed by UK police only in Northern Ireland, and the Government has signalled that it will foot the bill.<br />
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Three of the fearsome £1.3million machines could be held at strategic locations to provide fast response to any outbreaks of violence. Chief constables are also considering whether CS gas and Taser stun guns could also be used too.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PtXEq3kqXQs/T2EfcINYVUI/AAAAAAAAA6I/AUOad_3WaVk/s1600/water+cannon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PtXEq3kqXQs/T2EfcINYVUI/AAAAAAAAA6I/AUOad_3WaVk/s400/water+cannon.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It would be the first time that any of the three weapons have been used for crowd control on the British mainland, and would represent a dramatic escalation in the armoury available for tackling mass disorder.<br />
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But critics said the move risks further transforming the police into a 'paramilitary force'. They also point out that the water cannons are too slow-moving to have been deployed effectively during last year's fast-moving riots, and need to be refilled frequently, but supporters say they could be used in static or slow-moving clashes, for example to protect high-profile locations (e.g. stopping people marching to Parliament in order to protest - democracy eh)!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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And the reason ... Police chiefs and Politicians are grappling with widespread fears that fresh rioting could break out ... fuelled by unemployment, political discontent and the struggling economy ... and the Government are keen to arm the Police to protect themselves (and the unelected elite, who quietly wield power and who drive increasing levels of inequality).<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">However Jenny Jones, who sits on London's police and crime committee, said: 'The use of Tasers, CS gas and water cannon signals a dangerous escalation of police tactics. 'It risks turning the police into a paramilitary force'. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771056943311985997.post-66014914560219714242012-03-14T13:31:00.000-07:002012-03-14T13:31:22.689-07:00Dis-Trust Me ... I'm an Investment Banker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today we have obtained yet more insight into the continuing scandal, and ever increasing immorality, demonstrated by bankers and executives working within City investment banks ... as pure self-interest and greed drives them to make as much money as possible for themselves ... at the expense of everyone else ... including their CLIENTS (whose money they are supposed to be looking after and investing)! </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">A high-flying Goldman Sachs executive </span>Goldman Sachs executive (Director and Head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa) <span style="font-size: small;">resigns out of principle ... and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&sq=Goldman%20Sachs%20Group%20Inc&st=Search&scp=1" target="_blank">spills the beans</a> in a resignation letter to the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&sq=Goldman%20Sachs%20Group%20Inc&st=Search&scp=1" target="_blank">New York Times</a>!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="articleBody" style="text-align: justify;"><div itemprop="articleBody"> <i><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why I'm leaving Goldman Sachs by Greg Smith<br />
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TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it. <br />
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To put the problem in the simplest terms, the interests of the client continue to be sidelined in the way the firm operates and thinks about making money. Goldman Sachs is one of the world’s largest and most important investment banks and it is too integral to global finance to continue to act this way. The firm has veered so far from the place I joined right out of college that I can no longer in good conscience say that I identify with what it stands for. <br />
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It might sound surprising to a skeptical public, but culture was always a vital part of Goldman Sachs’s success. It revolved around teamwork, integrity, a spirit of humility, and always doing right by our clients. The culture was the secret sauce that made this place great and allowed us to earn our clients’ trust for 143 years. It wasn’t just about making money; this alone will not sustain a firm for so long. It had something to do with pride and belief in the organization. I am sad to say that I look around today and see virtually no trace of the culture that made me love working for this firm for many years. I no longer have the pride, or the belief. </span></i></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"> But this was not always the case. For more than a decade I recruited and mentored candidates through our grueling interview process. I was selected as one of 10 people (out of a firm of more than 30,000) to appear on our recruiting video, which is played on every college campus we visit around the world. In 2006 I managed the summer intern program in sales and trading in New York for the 80 college students who made the cut, out of the thousands who applied. </span></i></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work. </span></i></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
When the history books are written about Goldman Sachs, they may reflect that the current chief executive officer, Lloyd C. Blankfein, and the president, Gary D. Cohn, lost hold of the firm’s culture on their watch. I truly believe that this decline in the firm’s moral fiber represents the single most serious threat to its long-run survival. </span></i></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Over the course of my career I have had the privilege of advising two of the largest hedge funds on the planet, five of the largest asset managers in the United States, and three of the most prominent sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East and Asia. My clients have a total asset base of more than a trillion dollars. I have always taken a lot of pride in advising my clients to do what I believe is right for them, even if it means less money for the firm. This view is becoming increasingly unpopular at Goldman Sachs. Another sign that it was time to leave. </span></i></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
How did we get here? The firm changed the way it thought about leadership. Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an axe murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence. </span></i></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
What are three quick ways to become a leader? <br />
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a) Execute on the firm’s “axes,” which is Goldman-speak for persuading your clients to invest in the stocks or other products that we are trying to get rid of because they are not seen as having a lot of potential profit. <br />
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b) “Hunt Elephants.” In English: get your clients — some of whom are sophisticated, and some of whom aren’t — to trade whatever will bring the biggest profit to Goldman. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t like selling my clients a product that is wrong for them. <br />
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c) Find yourself sitting in a seat where your job is to trade any illiquid, opaque product with a three-letter acronym. <br />
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It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off. Over the last 12 months I have seen five different managing directors refer to their own clients as “muppets,” sometimes over internal e-mail. Even after the S.E.C., Fabulous Fab<span style="color: black;">, Abacus, </span>God’s work<span style="color: black;">, Carl Levin, </span>Vampire Squids? No humility? I mean, come on. Integrity? It is eroding. I don’t know of any illegal behavior, but will people push the envelope and pitch lucrative and complicated products to clients even if they are not the simplest investments or the ones most directly aligned with the client’s goals? Absolutely. Every day, in fact. <br />
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</span></i></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"> It astounds me how little senior management gets a basic truth: If clients don’t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. <br />
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These days, the most common question I get from junior analysts about derivatives is, “How much money did we make off the client?” It bothers me every time I hear it, because it is a clear reflection of what they are observing from their leaders about the way they should behave. Now project 10 years into the future: You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the junior analyst sitting quietly in the corner of the room hearing about “muppets,” “ripping eyeballs out” and “getting paid” doesn’t exactly turn into a model citizen. <br />
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When I was a first-year analyst I didn’t know where the bathroom was, or how to tie my shoelaces. I was taught to be concerned with learning the ropes, finding out what a derivative was, understanding finance, getting to know our clients and what motivated them, learning how they defined success and what we could do to help them get there. <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> </span></i> </div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"> <br />
My proudest moments in life — getting a full scholarship to go from South Africa to Stanford University, being selected as a Rhodes Scholar national finalist, winning a bronze medal for table tennis at the Maccabiah Games in Israel, known as the Jewish Olympics — have all come through hard work, with no shortcuts. Goldman Sachs today has become too much about shortcuts and not enough about achievement. It just doesn’t feel right to me anymore. </span></i></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
I hope this can be a wake-up call to the board of directors. Make the client the focal point of your business again. Without clients you will not make money. In fact, you will not exist. Weed out the morally bankrupt people, no matter how much money they make for the firm. And get the culture right again, so people want to work here for the right reasons. People who care only about making money will not sustain this firm — or the trust of its clients — for very much longer. </span></i></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Government 'leaders' would like us to think that the fundamental flaws/problems within the banking sector are on the way to being sorted ... but in truth Government's have ducked the issue and kicked any reform into the 'long grass' ... </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Articles such as this just go to show us that things are actually getting worse ... not better ... and that the bankers currently 'surviving and thriving' are 'morally bankrupt' ones ... not the honorable ones (like Greg Smith) who choose to make a stand out of principle ... and who want to act in their client's best interests and be rewarded for their ability to add as much value as possible for them.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And one thing that makes this yet more scary ... most of their clients are not individuals, but companies managing our pensions pots ... and do you think these people really have our best interests (and future pension pots) at heart ... or are they also looking to see how they can make as much money as possible for themselves too ...</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">What a corrupt and morally bankrupt world we live ... until enough people wake up and smell the coffee that is ...</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is well known that greed, self-interest and the reckless gambling of bankers caused the current crisis, as Governments were forced to bail out banks in order to stop ordinary hard-working people from losing their savings.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Government debt resulting from this subsequently saddled their nation (i.e. people) with massive interest payments (to service these debts), whilst bankers continued to reward themselves with massive bonuses (at taxpayers expense again)!</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Banks are still legally allowed to counterfeit money too, by printing 'electronic money' and lending it to others at interest ... a real 'money for nothing' scam of epic proportions (which is why 'runs on banks' were possible in the first place ... as they never had the money/capital they were lending out)!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This process is very important to those in power, because when people are in huge debt they are more easy to control, manipulate and abuse (by the process often termed '<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2010/10/money-banking-root-cause-of-debt-crisis.html" target="_blank">Debt Slavery</a>'). Fictitious money can also create fictitious booms in an economy (e.g. housing market), which is why successive Governments have pandered to banks and not done anything to stop it (n.b. in the US J F Kennedy was assassinated when he started to <a href="http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/executiveorder11110.htm" target="_blank">challenge</a> debt slavery ... and as a result no President or political leader has attempted to do so since).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the UK the Government is continuing to help banks drive people into debt slavery, by pushing graduates to immediately take on debt by tripling tuition fees (and trying to stop them paying debts off early), before they even have a job and prior to going into massive debt in order try to put a roof over their head (n.b. inflating house prices is also part of the scam)!</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we can now see the next scam ... Wage slavery. The Government has been working hard to deflect blame away from bankers and onto those who can't find a job ... so they can use this environment to bypass the minimum wage (£6/hr) and allow big business to boost their profits by getting job-seekers to work for them for free (and at tax payers expense).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the slashing of public sector jobs, and the private sector struggling due to the global crisis, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we currently face the worst conditions for generations in terms of jobs and these changes will only make things worse. The few new jobs created by the private sector have mostly been part-time low paid jobs, with massive competition for positions and extra hours difficult to come by. With big business now able to get people to effectively work for free now too, the negative effect on jobs growth (be it part time and low paid) and on overtime available will only be made worse!</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Governments have for a long time pandered to big business, and actively allowed a massive influx of people into the country to keep pay/salaries down. The massive amount of immigration that has occurred has also pushed up housing demand and house prices ... to the delight again of the bankers and politicians reliant on more 'debt slavery'.</span><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Government has 'spun' this new scheme as giving people the chance to 'get work experience', but when it displaces additional part-time jobs (and overtime) that would otherwise have been created ... the smoke-screen, just like all the others, quickly evaporates.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Debt Slavery and Wage slavery are partners in crime ... and underpin a cruel and immoral strategy best described as '<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2011/09/irradicating-economics-of-exploitation.html" target="_blank">the economics of exploitation</a>'. So how come the Government is getting away with this?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ignorance, Apathy and/or 'Clever Collusion' of those in Power (including the media)?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NB and the next scam after this? ... these same people are now starting to argue the need for 'trickle down economics' again ... and the need to reduce the top rate of tax for the ultra-rich (e.g. bankers, executives) ... to try to stop them avoiding tax and for money to '<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2011/08/tax-rich-more-and-poor-less-say-rich-in.html" target="_blank">trickle down</a>' to the poor ... you couldn't make this stuff up!</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scientists have suggested the theory of democracy has a key flaw - that most of the public are just too stupid to pick the 'right candidate'!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to the theory, the democratic process relies on the assumption that a majority of citizens recognise the best political candidate, or best policy idea, when they see it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108341/Is-reason-democracy-work-Study-humans-dumb-pick-right-person-lead-us.html" target="_blank">research</a> led by Professor David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, recently showed incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people, or the quality of those people's ideas.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This research is misleading however, and for numerous reasons. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First of all it assumes the majority of people are ignorant/incompetent, which they are not. A good dose of common sense, and a greater sense of community/purpose, can go a long way ... but this has been steadily displaced by a mix of self-interest and greed (modelled by current 'leaders').</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Secondly, t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he research ignores the deep and corrosive influence of all those with vested interests who quietly wield power; from politicians, media tycoons, lobby groups, big business, bankers and landowners. Put these into the mix too and it becomes quickly clear that the vast majority of messages people currently receive are hardly unbiased (e.g. remember 'dangerous climate change' and 'weapons of mass destruction')!</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thirdly, the research </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">assumes that what we now have can be called democracy! Most people in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> UK are indeed ignorant/apathetic to how little influence their '<a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2011/06/democracy-what-democracy-government-is.html" target="_blank">democratic system</a>' actually affords them! People get to have 'a say' ... but only once every five years, and even then, around only 2% of votes actually count/make a difference as to who gains power (i.e. 'swing votes' in marginal constituencies).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aristotle once <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2010/08/aristotle-evil-of-ignorance.html" target="_blank">said</a> ...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers"</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme"</span></blockquote><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Given the above, and the self-interest and greed (poweromics) being shown by those wielding power to stop this, it's clear that real democracy is still a long way off ... and will only arise if/when more people stand up for democracy ... </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take a look at the planned changes to the NHS for instance. The Government are still trying to <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2012/02/dictat-vs-democracy-cameron-and-lansley.html" target="_blank">ignore all the opposition</a> to its NHS bill (n.b. a bill that no-one voted for), from patient groups as well as all the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/25/royal-medical-colleges-nhs-reforms" target="_blank">healthcare experts</a>!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Government is attempting a 'divide and rule' strategy ... and deploying as much misleading PR/spin as it can. It also plans to deflect any blame from increased NHS rationing away from themselves ... and onto local GPs/consortium groups (and are trying desperately to bribe GP's to accept this ... with lots of cash)!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their 'localism strategy' is being used as a smoke-screen for <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2011/02/localism-strategy-for-devolving-axe-and.html" target="_blank">deflecting blame</a>, to 'divide and rule' and to effectively remove the word 'NATIONAL' out of the National He</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">alth Service (NHS) ... creating a complete post code lottery for healthcare in the UK.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scrapping waiting targets for treatments is also a way to force more people to pay in order to 'queue jump' ... as they will be treated by exactly the same NHS doctors and nurses (n.b. the health bill is seeking to ration healthcare provided free on the NHS, and at the same time allow existing NHS hospitals to use up to 49% of this 'freed up'/'spare capacity' to treat 'private patients')! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People need to wake up and 'smell the coffee', and stand up and be counted ... or they will lose a vital/cherished service, a National Health Service set up to provide healthcare for all based on clinical need ... and not the ability to pay.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The NHS reforms are now being exposed for what they are ... top-down dictat set to systematically destroy the NHS ... that no-one voted for and that no honorable / honest healthcare professional could ever support ...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before entering office Cameron said his number one priority was the NHS, and that the NHS would be "safe in his hands". He also said he was "determined to put an end to top-down re-organisations".</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet on entering office we find the complete opposite. Their plans (conceived and developed over many years by Lansley whilst in opposition) are in fact set to systematically destroy the NHS through the most callous, fundamental and profound top-down re-organisation embarked upon in recent UK history ... and prior to the creation of the NHS.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On encountering opposition to their reforms, Cameron announced a "pause" in the bill, "to listen" ... and said "for the reforms to succeed they would clearly need the support of healthcare professionals". Yet on initiating the "pause" it was clear this was nothing more than a PR stunt and that the real purpose was indeed not to listen, but to spend more time persuading! Cameron continually insisted that the problem was one of communication, and not the bill itself. Yet the most "callous" part of this so-called "pause" was not this, but that there was no actual pause at all - as in private Cameron told people to press-on quickly with the reforms (in particular GP commissioning) so they could argue that it was too late to turn back (which they have since repeatedly used). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By not listening and pressing-on regardless, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">virtually every healthcare professional group has been forced to <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2011/07/bma-rejects-health-reforms-for-second.html" target="_blank">harden</a> its position and to call for the bill to be scrapped. It is clear that even </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the majority of GP's oppose it now, with the minority of greedy GP's (who wanted to profit heavily by getting virtually the entire NHS budget into their own hands) being increasingly <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2012/02/irony-and-hypocrisy-corrupt-gps-saying.html" target="_blank">exposed</a> (and sidelined) by the vast majority (due to the action of Democracy, as demonstrated by the Royal College of GP's).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, instead of actually taking time to really listen to doctors and nurses now, Cameron and Lansley have decided to completely ignore them and try to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9093703/David-Cameron-I-will-push-through-NHS-reforms.html" target="_blank">force through</a> their top-down re-organisation, inviting to meetings only those who will do what they say (i.e. Dictat) ... and push back against all those who get in their way ...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will the UK continue to allow Dictat to crush Democracy ... let's see ... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As another blogger put it ... "Putting the Tories in charge of the NHS is like re-employing Harold Shipman as your GP..."</span><br />
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</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771056943311985997.post-4138229751285567152012-02-01T01:26:00.000-08:002012-02-01T01:26:09.722-08:00Irony and Hypocrisy: Corrupt GP's saying the NHS 'in peril' if they are NOT given the money!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0bwvFgzYSng/Tya2oongIBI/AAAAAAAAA2s/IthaAbbILyM/s1600/nyebevan.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="166" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0bwvFgzYSng/Tya2oongIBI/AAAAAAAAA2s/IthaAbbILyM/s400/nyebevan.gif" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With key Royal Colleges and healthcare representatives expressing concern, and in most cases, <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2011/07/bma-rejects-health-reforms-for-second.html" target="_blank">outright opposition</a> to the proposed NHS reforms, Andrew Lansley and David Cameron are under increasing pressure. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No-one voted for these NHS reforms and Cameron stated at the last election that he was committed to putting a stop to top-down reforms! David Cameron also said that the NHS would be safe in his hands and that any reforms would need the support of the healthcare professionals, yet despite all these fine words he is still ploughing on despite their outright opposition!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hypocrisy indeed!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And what is Lansley doing? ... well he clearly decided to call upon a few <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9045406/NHS-in-peril-if-health-reforms-fail-warn-senior-GPs.html" target="_blank">GP 'friends'</a> to write to the Telegraph to say they back the reforms, with typically threatening rhetoric ... "The NHS will be 'in peril' if the Government's controversial health reforms are prevented from going ahead".</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However the letter wasn't signed by any </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">GP, but 56 GP's specifically setting up new commissioning groups who, under the bill, will effectively replace primary care trusts (PCTs) and be handed the almost entire NHS Budget £80bn to manage (and personally profit from)!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RhTgwWMOwfQ/Tya28puM1gI/AAAAAAAAA20/6dskot-cg2o/s1600/doctors+and+money.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RhTgwWMOwfQ/Tya28puM1gI/AAAAAAAAA20/6dskot-cg2o/s1600/doctors+and+money.gif" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cold reality is most GP's are actually not at the fore-front of healthcare, with many out of date in terms of knowledge, and acting more like money orientated businessmen than healthcare professionals, already pocketing 6 figure+ salaries ... and these 56 particular GP's are looking to take over virtually the entire NHS budget so they can get massive kick-backs, bungs and bonuses (e.g. from rationing healthcare, steering away from optimal clinical decisions and receiving share options/dividends) and in doing so, become Government made multi-millionaires at the expense of patients and taxpayers.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last November the BMA moved to a position of total opposition to the Bill, and in the New Year the Royal College of Nurses and the Royal College of Midwives followed suit. The Royal College of GPs is itself is deeply sceptical, although it's not publicly in total opposition yet (due to representations/lobbying from immoral/corrupt GP's like the ones who signed this letter), even though 90%+ are apparently in opposition (due to clear conflicts of interests between 'cashing in' and 'care').</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr Clare Gerada, chair of the RCGPs, said: "GPs must understand their role in commissioning and we support the principle of greater clinician involvement. But many of our members feel that this could have been done in a less disruptive way by placing GPs on the boards of existing PCTs."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Government, when it 'paused' to 'listen' to concerns, did not pause in its quest to abolish PCT's and the process of bribing corrupt GP's to ration and privatise healthcare. It therefore no surprise, given the stench of self-interest and personal gain, that these people are providing the only voice backing the reforms. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most healthcare professionals, royal colleges and professional bodies know exactly what the Government and these corrupt GP's are up to ... but are finding it <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16771304" target="_blank">difficult</a> to say so publicly. When will one or more of these bodies finally spill the beans and make it completely clear to everyone what is actually going on ... as they certainly have a professional and moral obligation to do so, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as ignorance is unfortunately not bliss, and any apathy on their part will almost certainly kill ... literally!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The reality is that the NHS is indeed 'in peril', but only if we give these people the money, not if we don't!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771056943311985997.post-39080162396391185472012-02-01T01:22:00.000-08:002012-02-01T01:22:48.816-08:00Global Cooling here we come ... due to the Sun, Water Cycle and Oceans<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming--Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html" target="_blank">inconvenient challenge</a> after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-takw9meSPx8/TyZ6zrtPrEI/AAAAAAAAA2U/R8Uq-04igFQ/s1600/Global+Temperatures.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="243" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-takw9meSPx8/TyZ6zrtPrEI/AAAAAAAAA2U/R8Uq-04igFQ/s400/Global+Temperatures.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, leading climate scientists yesterday added that after emitting unusually high levels of energy throughout the 20th Century, the sun is now heading towards a ‘grand minimum’ in its output, threatening cold summers, bitter winters and a shortening of the season available for growing food.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Solar output goes through 11-year cycles, with high numbers of sunspots seen at their peak. We are now at what should be the peak of what scientists call ‘Cycle 24’ – which is why last week’s solar storm resulted in sightings of the aurora borealis further south than usual. But sunspot numbers are running at less than half those seen during cycle peaks in the 20th Century.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-91qvlgOOPqs/TyZ68nAZ27I/AAAAAAAAA2c/BNGezQGiRUQ/s1600/Sun+Cylces.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="247" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-91qvlgOOPqs/TyZ68nAZ27I/AAAAAAAAA2c/BNGezQGiRUQ/s400/Sun+Cylces.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Analysis by experts at NASA and the University of Arizona – derived from magnetic-field measurements 120,000 miles beneath the sun’s surface – suggest that Cycle 25, whose peak is due in 2022, will be a great deal weaker still. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to a paper issued last week by the Met Office, there is a 92 per cent chance that both Cycle 25 and those taking place in the following decades will be as weak as, or weaker than, the ‘Dalton minimum’ of 1790 to 1830. In this period, named after the meteorologist John Dalton, average temperatures in parts of Europe fell by 2C.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, it is also possible that the new solar energy slump could be as deep as the ‘Maunder minimum’ (after astronomer Edward Maunder), between 1645 and 1715 in the coldest part of the ‘Little Ice Age’ when, as well as the Thames frost fairs, the canals of Holland froze solid.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet, in its paper, the Met Office claimed that the consequences now would be negligible – because the impact of the sun on climate is far less than man-made carbon dioxide (<i>what, really ... the effects of CO2 surpass those of the sun, the actual heat source itself ... get real!</i>) Although the sun’s output is likely to decrease until 2100, ‘This would only cause a reduction in global temperatures of 0.08C.’ Peter Stott, one of the authors, said: ‘Our findings suggest a reduction of solar activity to levels not seen in hundreds of years would be insufficient to offset the dominant influence of greenhouse gases.’</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These findings are fiercely disputed by other solar experts. ‘World temperatures may end up a lot cooler than now for 50 years or more,’ said Henrik Svensmark, director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at Denmark’s National Space Institute. ‘It will take a long battle to convince some climate scientists that the sun is important (<i>ignoring the sun, the fundamental heat source driving everything, says it all really!</i>) It may well be that the sun is going to demonstrate this on its own, without the need for their help.’</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He pointed out that, in claiming the effect of the solar minimum would be small, the Met Office was relying on the same computer models that are being undermined by the current pause in global-warming.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CO2 levels have continued to rise without interruption and, in 2007, the Met Office claimed that global warming was about to ‘come roaring back’. It said that between 2004 and 2014 there would be an overall increase of 0.3C. In 2009, it predicted that at least three of the years 2009 to 2014 would break the previous temperature record set in 1998.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So far there is no sign of any of this happening. But yesterday a Met Office spokesman insisted its models were still valid. ‘The ten-year projection remains groundbreaking science (<i>do they mean fiction?)</i>. The period for the original projection is not over yet,’ he said.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr Nicola Scafetta, of Duke University in North Carolina, is the author of several papers that argue the Met Office climate models show there should have been ‘steady warming from 2000 until now’. ‘If temperatures continue to stay flat or start to cool again, the divergence between the models and recorded data will eventually become so great that the whole scientific community will question the current theories,’ he said (<i>indeed</i>).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He believes that as the Met Office model attaches much greater significance to CO2 than to the sun, it was bound to conclude that there would not be cooling. ‘The real issue is whether the model itself is accurate,’ Dr Scafetta said. Meanwhile, one of America’s most eminent climate experts, Professor Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology, said she found the Met Office’s confident prediction of a ‘negligible’ impact difficult to understand (<i>and that goes for me too!</i>)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‘The responsible thing to do would be to accept the fact that the models may have severe shortcomings when it comes to the influence of the sun,’ said Professor Curry. As for the warming pause, she said that many scientists ‘are not surprised’.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She argued it is becoming evident that factors other than CO2 play an important role in rising or falling warmth, such as the 60-year water temperature cycles in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‘They have insufficiently been appreciated in terms of global climate,’ said Prof Curry. When both oceans were cold in the past, such as from 1940 to 1970, the climate cooled. The Pacific cycle ‘flipped’ back from warm to cold mode in 2008 and the Atlantic is also thought likely to flip in the next few years.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pal Brekke, senior adviser at the Norwegian Space Centre, said some scientists found the importance of water cycles difficult to accept, because doing so means admitting that the oceans – not CO2 – caused much of the global warming between 1970 and 1997.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The same goes for the impact of the sun – which was highly active for much of the 20th Century. ‘Nature is about to carry out a very interesting experiment,’ he said. ‘Ten or 15 years from now, we will be able to determine much better whether the warming of the late 20th Century really was caused by man-made CO2, or by natural variability.’ (<i>indeed!</i>)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, since the end of last year, world temperatures have fallen by more than half a degree, as the cold ‘La Nina’ effect has re-emerged in the South Pacific.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‘We’re now well into the second decade of the pause,’ said Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. ‘If we don’t see convincing evidence of global warming by 2015, it will start to become clear whether the models are bunk. And, if they are, the implications for some scientists could be very serious.’</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">... Indeed so, and all the money these corrupt climate 'academics', politicians, <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/2009/07/more-spin-than-science.html" target="_blank">con-artists</a> and hypocrites (e.g. Al Gore, Chris Huhne, Ed Miliband) have already pilfered from people's pockets with their lies and deceit should be forcibly recovered, with the individuals involved in the <a href="http://poweromics.blogspot.com/search?q=climategate" target="_blank">racket</a> brought to book and locked up for economic genocide and for being the real danger to mankind!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(nb hopefully one of the them, Chris Huhne, will be locked up shortly anyway, for perverting the course of justice).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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